We’re touring to support the release of our new recording: Happy Birthday!Thanks to (weewerk) you can now pick up both Happy Birthday and our last record Tick Tock on Zunior in digital form for $8.88 each!
If you were just going to rip our music to mp3s for your portable gramophone anyhow, why not just skip a step and buy the mp3s? The Zunior download also includes a full sized pdf of the album artwork .
What The Jackals of the Media Say:
"Whether it’s Mathias Kom on his own or backed by 13 stellar musicians animating his quirky, sardonic, parlour pop, Peterborough’s The Burning Hell put on an incredible live show. A harbinger of wonderful performances to come, Happy Birthday is generally inward and comically morbid. It’s more “classy circus†than “cheap funeral†though, with deceptively jaunty arrangements and skewed perspectives on life and love. The Burning Hell’s people’s folk music is familiar but there’s something lively and unique coursing through Kom’s songs."
EYE Weekly, March 5 2008
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"Happy Birthday is a perfect balance of mirth and the morbid…every song here announces Kom as one of the finest new songwriters in Canada."
Guelph Mercury, Jan. ’08
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"Moments of macabre comedy weave their way in and out of nearly every song on Happy Birthday… the kind of album we’ll be throwing on the stereo as the end times draw near and we crowd into our bomb shelters to eat granola bars and have a good laugh over everything that’s gone wrong with the world."
ChartAttack, Jan. ’08
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"Don’t let Mathias Kom’s doomy Leonard Cohen baritone or the brooding, skeletal folk arrangements upon which he tends to hang his words fool you – the guy’s actually pretty funny. The Burning Hell’s latest album, Happy Birthday, is veritably overflowing with black wit and cracked genius."
Toronto Star, Jan. ’08
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"Revolutionary... The Burning Hell makes me want to tear down large statues of myself in public squares - and replace them with even larger ones!"
Kim Jong-Il, Dear Leader, Official North Korean Peoples’ Guide to the Canadian Indie Music Scene
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Read more raves and rants from the press HERE.
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Thanks to Brian Mitolo for this video of Mathias and Darcy from The Burning Hell playing "Last Will and Testament" live at The Gordon Best Theatre. Scroll down on this page for a scene from Brian Mitolo’s film "Chronic" featuring "Bretton Woods" by The Burning Hell, and check out some of Brian Mitolo’s other films on Youtube!
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A Brief Historical Timeline of The Burning Hell:
Paleozoic Era, Cambrian Period: Early ancestor of The Burning Hell first walks on land. Significant Fossil: "OPUS" (cassette only, limited edition. sold out forever.)
Paleozoic Era, Silurian Period: Though primitive, The Burning Hell shows signs of dim intellect: gathers twigs and grubs in forest, records first ’studio’ album. Significant Fossil: "Here Comes Evil!" (out of stock.)
Paleozoic Era, Carboniferous Period: Vestigal tail disappears, and The Burning Hell begins to compete for scarce food and territory with other local bands. Significant Fossil: "Tortured Lost Souls Burning Forever" (a cult classic in some areas of west-central Peterborough and the Federated States of Micronesia.)
Mesozoic Era, Jurassic Period: Also known as ’The Great Migration’, this period sees The Burning Hell cross the Atlantic; brain evolves; skin becomes translucent. Significant Fossil: "When Animals Attack" (available only at Starbuck’s, Wal-Mart and Winners during the 2004 Holiday Season)
Mesozoic Era, Cretaceous Period: First live birth signifies that The Burning Hell has evolved from reptile to mammal, though other signs of progress are nil. Significant Fossil: "Tick Tock".
Cenozoic Era, Neogene Period: The Burning Hell gets serious, discovers fire, senses the creeping inevitability of death. Significant Fossil: "Happy Birthday".
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